As a former Arrow employee, she helped to build the company as it explored and developed its coal seam gas interests across the Surat Basin. Her husband David left his job as an Arrow Energy senior land coordinator only late last year after 8.5 years' employment.

As a cattle and grain farmer near Dalby, she has experienced first hand the "stalled and difficult negotiation tactics" she feels the company has employed when dealing with property owners.

She said she believed a "culture of secrecy, silence and lack of regard for landholder interests" at Arrow Energy was placing unnecessary strain on landholders.

"There has been a definite culture change as the company has gotten bigger, particularly since multinationals Shell and Petro China have taken over," she said.

"They do not take the time to understand the farmer's core business - they only understand their own objectives.

"The land team work off a scripted piece of paper that dictates what they can and cannot tell the landholder during their dealings with them."

Mr Baker had long-straddled the difficult balancing act of being both a gas company employee and a cattle and grain farmer near Dalby.

He said the balancing act became even more difficult when he became embroiled in his own "ongoing saga" with Arrow in May last year after a gas leak was discovered along the pipeline on the family's 1000-hectare property.

The Baker family currently has nine non-operational wells on their property.

The family's story reaffirms the tales of many landholders in the district.

Mr Baker said he received a phone call from Arrow at 11.30pm one night in May 2010 explaining there was a gas leak into the uncommissioned lines on his property, and requesting the family avoided any company infrastructure until the problem was isolated and repaired.

His father, who lives with a farmhand on a separate cottage at the property, was unable to operate the farm for three days and had to remain at his home, which was less than 100m from Arrow infrastructure.